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In the Room with Matthew Sanford and Krista Tippett
Watch this special in-studio recording of Krista Tippett's 2006 interview with renowned yoga teacher Matthew Sanford. A wondrous, buried treasure from the 20-year On Being archive.
Be prepared, as you listen to what follows, to take in subtleties and gracefulness you've never before pondered - or tried to feel in yourself - in the interplay between your mind and your body.
Matthew has an immensely energetic physical presence. He has been paralyzed from the chest down since a car accident in 1978. But he likes to say that his experience is only more extreme, not so different, from that of everyone else. He's written, "We are all leaving our bodies - this is the inevitable arc of living. Death cannot be avoided; neither can the inward silence that comes with the aging process." Matthew’s intricate knowledge of that "inward silence," which he was forced to befriend after the noisy connections which most of us take for granted were severed - it’s revelatory. So is his insistence that it’s not possible to live more deeply in your body - in all its grace and all its flaws - without becoming more compassionate towards all of life. And: if you do yoga, you will never think about what it is affecting inside you in the same way again.
Krista sat with Matthew Sanford just after he'd published his beautiful book Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence.
[This interview is unedited and uses autogenerated closed captioning. You can find the edited and produced interview with music and full closed captioning in the On Being episode "Matthew Sanford - The Body's Grace." Listen here: ua-cam.com/video/zFP5EknSJt8/v-deo.html ]
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Nick Cave - Loss, Yearning, Transcendence
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Here are some experiences to which Nick Cave gives voice and song: the "universal condition" of yearning, and of loss; a "spirituality of rigor"; and the transcendent and moral dimensions of what music is about. This Australian musician, writer, and actor first made a name in the wild world of ’80s post-punk and later with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (@nickcave) He also underwent public struggl...
Sara Hendren - Our Bodies, Aliveness, and the Built World
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Our built world is designed around something called "normal," and yet every single one of our bodies is mysterious, and constantly adapting for better or worse - and always, always changing. This is a fact so ordinary - and yet not something most of us routinely pause to know and to ponder and work with. But Sara Hendren has made it her passion, bringing to it her varied vocations and gifts: be...
Christiana Figueres - Ecological Hope, and Spiritual Evolution
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The ecological crisis we are standing before is at once civilizational and personal - intimately close to each of us in the places we love and inhabit, and unfolding at a species level. And as much as anyone alive on the planet now, Christiana Figueres has felt the overwhelm of this and stepped into service. She gives voice so eloquently to the grief that we feel and must allow to bind us to ea...
[Extended] Clint Smith with Krista Tippett
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This phrase recurs throughout Clint Smith's writing: "in the marrow of our bones." It is an example of how words can hold encrypted wisdom - in this case, the reality that memory and emotion lodge in us physically. Words and phrases have carried this truth forward in time long before we had the science to understand it. Clint Smith is best known for his 2021 book, How the Word Is Passed (@Littl...
Clint Smith - What We Know in the "Marrow of Our Bones"
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This phrase recurs throughout Clint Smith's writing: "in the marrow of our bones." It is an example of how words can hold encrypted wisdom - in this case, the reality that memory and emotion lodge in us physically. Words and phrases have carried this truth forward in time long before we had the science to understand it. Clint Smith is best known for his 2021 book, How the Word Is Passed (@Littl...
[Unedited] Latanya Sweeney with Krista Tippett
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You may not know Latanya Sweeney's name, but as much as any other single person - and with good humor and grace as well as brilliance - she has led on the frontier of our gradual understanding of how far from anonymous you and I are in almost any database we inhabit, and how far from neutral all the algorithms by which we increasingly navigate our lives. In this conversation with Krista, she br...
Latanya Sweeney - On Shaping Technology to Human Purpose
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You may not know Latanya Sweeney's name, but as much as any other single person - and with good humor and grace as well as brilliance - she has led on the frontier of our gradual understanding of how far from anonymous you and I are in almost any database we inhabit, and how far from neutral all the algorithms by which we increasingly navigate our lives. In this conversation with Krista, she br...
Matthew Sanford - The Body's Grace
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A wondrous, buried treasure from the 20-year On Being archive, with renowned yoga teacher Matthew Sanford. Be prepared, as you listen to what follows, to take in subtleties and gracefulness you've never before pondered - or tried to feel in yourself - in the interplay between your mind and your body. Matthew has an immensely energetic physical presence. He has been paralyzed from the chest down...
Christine Runyan - A Compassionate Body Scan
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With an intricate understanding of the nervous system response that is always unfolding below the level of consciousness, Dr. Christine Runyan guides this gentle, practical, sensory meditation to calm your body from the inside out - "blanket it" with a bit of tenderness and kindness. Receive more of Runyan’s wisdom by listening to her On Being conversation with Krista, “On Healing Our Distresse...
Baratunde Thurston - How to Be a Social Creative
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Baratunde Thurston (@baratunde) is a comedian, writer, and media entrepreneur. He has eyes open to the contradictions, strangeness, and beauty of being human. He looks for learning happening even amidst our hardest cultural tangles. And he intertwines all of this, innovatively and searchingly, with his lifelong joy in the natural world. The kaleidoscopic view of life and love and the world that...
Reid Hoffman - AI, and What It Means to Be (More) Human
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In this season of On Being and those to come, we are going to train the core human questions on the emerging “generative AI.” Beyond the hype and the doom, what is this new technology calling us to as human beings? What is our agency to shape it to human purpose, and how might it bring us - literally - to our senses? This inaugural conversation with Reid Hoffman (@reidhoffman) is a wide and dee...
Kerry Washington - Acting as a Devotional Practice
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“Becoming other people” for a living, as Kerry Washington (@kerrywashingtonvideo) likes to describe her craft, turns out to be a revelatory lens on the high drama that is the human condition. As a “learning actor,” a kind of actor-anthropologist, she has brought elegance and moral rigor to all kinds of roles: as the uber-glamorous, tough-as-nails Olivia Pope on Scandal ; as the wife of Idi Amin...
Kate Bowler - A Blessing for the Life You Didn't Choose
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Kate Bowler - A Blessing for the Life You Didn't Choose
Kate Bowler - On Being in a Body
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Kate Bowler - On Being in a Body
A New Season of On Being Is Coming
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A New Season of On Being Is Coming
Jason Reynolds -Imagination and Fortitude
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Jason Reynolds -Imagination and Fortitude
Bessel van der Kolk - How Trauma Lodges in the Body, Revisited
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Bessel van der Kolk - How Trauma Lodges in the Body, Revisited
Krista Tippett - Calling and Wholeness
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Krista Tippett - Calling and Wholeness
Ocean Vuong - A Life Worthy of Our Breath
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Ocean Vuong - A Life Worthy of Our Breath
Krista Tippett - Taking a Long View of Time, and Becoming "Critical Yeast"
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Krista Tippett - Taking a Long View of Time, and Becoming "Critical Yeast"
Resmaa Menakem - 'Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence'
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Resmaa Menakem - 'Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence'
Krista Tippett - Seeing the Generative Story of Our Time
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Krista Tippett - Seeing the Generative Story of Our Time
Ross Gay - Tending Joy and Practicing Delight
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Ross Gay - Tending Joy and Practicing Delight
“How to Be a Poet” - written and read by Wendell Berry
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“How to Be a Poet” - written and read by Wendell Berry
“The Children’s Moon” - written and read by Marilyn Nelson
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“The Children’s Moon” - written and read by Marilyn Nelson
“Go to the Limits of Your Longing” - written by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated & read by Joanna Macy
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“Go to the Limits of Your Longing” - written by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated & read by Joanna Macy
“Onto a Vast Plain” - written by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated and read by Joanna Macy
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“Onto a Vast Plain” - written by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated and read by Joanna Macy
J. Drew Lanham - Pathfinding Through the Improbable
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J. Drew Lanham - Pathfinding Through the Improbable
“Sweet Darkness” - written and read by David Whyte
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“Sweet Darkness” - written and read by David Whyte

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  • @before_sunrise
    @before_sunrise 23 години тому

    Be who you are, even if it kills you.

  • @user-ty1ym8ue8l
    @user-ty1ym8ue8l 2 дні тому

    klloe Kardsahian- i think you would love this brave sister.

  • @magaliroy-fequiere9769
    @magaliroy-fequiere9769 4 дні тому

    Resmaa Menakem pays zero attention to powerful actual social forces beyond race. We live in a culture where capitalism--our relationship labor--is the source of "trauma" for all people who have to make a living on this earth. This is body-centrism is typical US nonsense. Humans have accumulated the "traumas" of their daily lives in this dog-eat-dog world in countries where race is not operational. Race-centrism sells over here. Put poor people of any color with rich people of the same color in a room and see what happens. Class is a more serious and all encompassing "injury."

  • @LyndsayCedarwood
    @LyndsayCedarwood 7 днів тому

    From the opening guffaw, I love every exchange in this conversation. On my 4th listen now.

  • @user-wc5mh6sz5z
    @user-wc5mh6sz5z 10 днів тому

    I thought it would change my life. I really have struggled and wanted to see the interviewing of brene's natural thought about vulnerability. Really thank s for this video

    • @user-wc5mh6sz5z
      @user-wc5mh6sz5z 10 днів тому

      Her smile is so cool that i cannot help love her, thanks you

  • @svilevac
    @svilevac 12 днів тому

    Amazing - thank you so much

  • @barbarabell-pb5ry
    @barbarabell-pb5ry 13 днів тому

    Beautiful.❤️ Thank you.

  • @edsheerin5442
    @edsheerin5442 15 днів тому

    lovely...thank u

  • @amresh_shah_
    @amresh_shah_ 20 днів тому

    This is my favourite piece of poetry. I keep coming back to this time and again. 🥰

  • @pamelabaker1211
    @pamelabaker1211 22 дні тому

    I grew up with my father saying to me probably, every day, "Who do you think you are, Miss America?"

  • @serene1486
    @serene1486 22 дні тому

    Thank you my ex for introducing me to Mary Oliver

  • @airmark02
    @airmark02 22 дні тому

    I listened to this whole program. I wondered where was the deeper analysis of class oppression and global authoritarianism ? Why are the PMC / NPR liberal elite still completely oblivious to the endemic corruption of academic credentialism & incessant virtue hoarding ? Arendt would probably laugh at their mass formation surrounding recent Covid delusions & doom cult climate change worship...etc.

  • @asharajwade8745
    @asharajwade8745 25 днів тому

    Indeed a treat! Mary Oliver's simple words speak for all of us, touch the core of our heart so lovingly! "More willing to grow old..." Indeed! So true. !

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    Really well done.

  • @Patatata123
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    "we need people to be able to explain their imperfections to us in good time before they've hurt us too much"

  • @kuyilmozhim8021
    @kuyilmozhim8021 Місяць тому

    This is my most favourite poem! Thank you so much for this wonderful video, along with the words, the visual art takes me to the world of Wendell Berry 😭❤️

  • @mahaadob.m.5444
    @mahaadob.m.5444 Місяць тому

    The guy singing at the end *le piece de resistance*

  • @pookiecatblue
    @pookiecatblue Місяць тому

    Beautiful poem. Wonderful animation. Thank you.

  • @SylvainDousset
    @SylvainDousset Місяць тому

    Brilliant ❤

  • @missjenn3963
    @missjenn3963 Місяць тому

    I would love to know what Rick (or anyone else) thinks about medication for mental health issues and creativity. As a child I always wanted to be an artist. It was all i ever did (draw and paint) and I was all set to go to art college but at 17 I was also medicated for serious depression and whilst the medication worked in the way it was supposed to, I lost all interest in painting. I dropped out of art school (and studied literature instead) and for a couple of decades spent my life getting up to all kinds of things except creating. Having been on my own healing journey for about ten years, and havign peeled back various layers, I have finally reclaimed this lost part of myself and it feels so good.

  • @alexvince461
    @alexvince461 Місяць тому

    Also lyrics for litanies by Nicholas lens

  • @brigitflower1821
    @brigitflower1821 Місяць тому

    🤍 beautiful . . . thank you

  • @FarenMonique
    @FarenMonique Місяць тому

    Beautiful. Powerful. Thank you.

  • @louisemoore7715
    @louisemoore7715 Місяць тому

    We don't come into this world a blank slate..We have God-given talents, gifts and abilities....These must be recognized by an observant parent...acknowledged, supported, and developed...Then a flow state becomes apparent.

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    Glorious 🩷

  • @cre8ive_intentions
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    I love this! 💖💖💖

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    This is the sustainability and sustenance for our human survival.

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    @saraquelchesara9514 Місяць тому

    Traduzione?

  • @simiancinema2022
    @simiancinema2022 2 місяці тому

    A lot of New Age twaddle. Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot would beat these two's arses with a wiffleball bat.

    • @sonampalmo3578
      @sonampalmo3578 Місяць тому

      Back! Back! Under your rock. Stay!...Good boy.

    • @simiancinema2022
      @simiancinema2022 Місяць тому

      @@sonampalmo3578 Poetry for people who don't like poetry.

  • @coochalena2616
    @coochalena2616 2 місяці тому

    Anyone that doesn’t bring you alive is too small for you. Love that. ❤

  • @Octoberisms
    @Octoberisms 2 місяці тому

    Thank you for introducing me to Mary.

  • @michaelvandenheuvel317
    @michaelvandenheuvel317 2 місяці тому

    Yes please 🙏

  • @lizbarker8995
    @lizbarker8995 2 місяці тому

    Beautiful poem. Out of the darkness much comes...your repetition of lines used to initially annoy me. Now I find it’s emphasis interesting and helpful. Your talk with Thomas Hubl was for me like an interestingly woven fabric. The type of discussion one would wish to have more in every day life. Thankyou

  • @slowwco
    @slowwco 2 місяці тому

    Joan Halifax quote highlights from this video: “I am not a ‘nice’ Buddhist. I’m more interested in a plain rice, ‘get down in the street and get dirty’ Buddhism.” “The more aware we become, the more responsible we recognize we are for what is and what will be.” “I'm not a sectarian Buddhist; what I am though is someone who wants to help people see inside.” “The experience of grief is profoundly humanizing.” “When you are in a state of deep internal stillness, you see the truth of change, the truth of impermanence, that's constantly in flow moment by moment. And, that becomes a kind of insight that liberates you from the futility of the kind of grief that disallows our own humanity to emerge.” “When systems break down, the ones who have the resilience to actually repair themselves move to a higher order of organization.” “We actually don't even use the word ‘meditation’ … We call it ‘reflective practices’ or ‘contemplative interventions.’”

  • @luciaramsonius1275
    @luciaramsonius1275 2 місяці тому

    Awesome! Such a great conversation and heart and mind spirit inspiring dialog! Thank you very much! Sending to all I know.🌳🙏💕💫🍀

  • @MrENSOGA
    @MrENSOGA 2 місяці тому

    NC, like a preacher of love, losses...and life.

  • @Akon848484
    @Akon848484 2 місяці тому

    In my top 5 books of all time. So precious

  • @sublimeister9630
    @sublimeister9630 2 місяці тому

    Excellent animation. Please, please, please…can you also do an animation on “Love after Love” by Dereck Walcott? 🙏🏼😊

  • @Talentedtadpole
    @Talentedtadpole 2 місяці тому

    How I wish people would stop blowing smoke up this guy's ass. It's DULL and it's bad for him.

  • @Dimethyltryptamine636
    @Dimethyltryptamine636 2 місяці тому

    according to this 'intellectual' the climate crisis is due to white men and in order to save it we need to protect black trans people. LMAO 🤡🌍 R.I.P. Humanity

  • @ahmettepiroglu3149
    @ahmettepiroglu3149 2 місяці тому

    Thank you!

  • @lilbyte3
    @lilbyte3 2 місяці тому

    Yes, truly - let us invent a time machine to transport us to the moment that the Vietnam War broke out so that we may prevent it and keep Ocean Vuong from being born. Imagine, centering yourself in such a horrible conflict! Yikes. Not a very Buddhist approach, my dude!

    • @justyami
      @justyami 2 місяці тому

      ?

    • @lilbyte3
      @lilbyte3 2 місяці тому

      @@justyami it is extremely self-centered to postulate that the best thing to come out of a senseless war in which hundreds of thousands of people died is one's own damned self; I don't think any human being needs to go to such lengths to claim to be "special". This dude has a deranged god complex. Every person on this planet is here because of conflict in one shape or another. I would certainly rather have had no Vietnam War than one Ocean Vuong!

  • @lilbyte3
    @lilbyte3 2 місяці тому

    Listen closely, children! Tiny Tim is about to give a speech; let us attend to his precious words lest he perish!

  • @frankvelez691
    @frankvelez691 2 місяці тому

    Magic egotistical guru

  • @reapsolve
    @reapsolve 2 місяці тому

    Anyone know the travk playing at 45:00

  • @jrhooman
    @jrhooman 2 місяці тому

    this is the one of the most beautiful things ive experienced. great poem, great performance and great animation.

  • @karinturkington2455
    @karinturkington2455 2 місяці тому

    Wonderful.

  • @marcusschmaling9
    @marcusschmaling9 2 місяці тому

    This is profound. Thank you.